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Alex Albon said his first-lap collision with Ollie Bearman at Silverstone âwas on meâ, after the Williams driver was penalised for causing the incident and later retired. Albon said: "My mistake. I think I had a bad start and locked up basically. It happens, unfortunately kind of ruined the race and then we started to box and test the new front wing out a little bit and do some stuff we wouldn't normally have time to do on a normal race weekend. Sums up the season so far, yeah, just need a smooth one basically. This one was on me, this race, Lap 1 wasn't good enough, but we'll look to come back stronger."
Gabriel Bortoleto said Audi âtruly showedâ its pace at Silverstone and that the team âdeserveâ its first points since Australia, after he finished eighth from 11th on the grid. Bortoleto said: "The team deserve it, we have been going through a few races with no points. [It] has been tough for all of the team to see that the pace is there, the potential is there but because of one or other reason, we cannot capitalise on that. But today we truly showed why we are here and our true pace."
Fernando Alonso says Aston Martinâs Hungarian Grand Prix upgrade will not be the only factor in his decision on whether to stay with the team, after Adrian Newey suggested the update could be âvery importantâ to Alonsoâs future. Alonso said: "I cannot say that it's really connected, because if the car is good or bad, there are other factors that I need to think about. Maybe the car is super good and still [I have] feelings that the sport is going in the wrong direction. So it will help, no doubt... but it will not be the only point."
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella says the teamâs best chance of closing the gap to Mercedes and Ferrari in its difficult 2026 season will come from a major upgrade push either side of Formula 1âs summer shutdown. Stella said: "My ideal trajectory at the moment is that we would like to close the gap with the next round of upgrades that will happen across the shutdown with something happening before and something happening after the shutdown. I think before, because we have kind of cleared our ideas as to which is the direction to follow in terms of aerodynamic development. So, ideally, we will be able to deliver upgrades in the short term and upgrades in the midterm, and hopefully by then the others have not disappeared too far in front."
Lando Norris said McLaren have to do âmany things betterâ and bring upgrades that add performance after describing their car as âundrivableâ during a difficult British Grand Prix weekend, despite finishing fourth at Silverstone. Norris said: "Other people have bought a lot of upgrades and updates since, and we kind of haven't - nothing that has brought us that much performance. I don't know, the car was just undrivable, honestly."
RacingNews365 reports that sources close to both Oscar Piastri and McLaren insist ânothing has changedâ in their relationship, despite paddock rumours that Piastri has told the team he plans to leave at the end of this season. The outlet says those sources expect the nine-time grand prix winner to remain with McLaren for the âforeseeableâ future, while noting there is âincorrectâ information circulating amid wider driver-market speculation involving Max Verstappen.
Carlos Sainz said it is âconcerningâ and âfrustratingâ that Williams is not finding the lap-time gains it expects when it brings upgrades, after feeling the team made no progress at Silverstone. Sainz said: "[It's] concerning, frustrating because it starts to be a bad trend this year that we don't seem to really find a lot of lap time when the upgrades are coming. We need to have a good sit-down now this week and analyse what's happening because, unfortunately, we've shed a lot of weight out of the car by now, but the gap to the front keeps increasing and the gap to the leader of the midfield keeps increasing, so we don't seem to be finding the lap time that we expected in the wind tunnel."
George Russell said he felt âvery gratefulâ to stand on the British Grand Prix podium at Silverstone, describing it as a full-circle moment given his long-standing connection to the circuit. Russell said: "I feel very grateful to have stood up there because I went to Silverstone for the first time as an 11-year-old boy. And I won my first ever car race at Silverstone. It was the first time I drove an F1 car."
The FIA has asked Ferrari and Red Bull for additional information about their rotating rear wings in the wake of Max Verstappenâs two failures, including his Silverstone crash, Autosport reports. The request is aimed at ensuring both designs comply with safety requirements while operating, including the 400ms maximum transition time set out in the technical regulations, before the FIA decides whether further checks or rule changes are needed. Verstappen called the situation âsuper dangerousâ, while Laurent Mekies said Red Bull will âreview the full area to make sure we leave zero chance for that to happen againâ.
Adrian Newey will make a surprise one-off return to the Red Bull fold at the 2026 Goodwood Festival of Speed this weekend, driving the RB17 hypercar up the hillclimb in his first appearance with the team since leaving for Aston Martin.
George Russell says the FIA was right to follow the regulations and let the British Grand Prix finish behind the safety car, after Max Verstappenâs crash with four laps remaining left no time for a restart once lapped cars were allowed to unlap. Russell said: "Of course, it's a shame for any race to finish behind the Safety Car. But then you go back to Abu Dhabi '21, and that is just how racing goes. Nobody can plan for somebody to have an incident, and the way F1 deals with it, and the FIA deals with it, shouldn't be any different at the end of the race compared to the start of the race."
Mercedes and Williams completed the opening day of a two-day Pirelli tyre test at Silverstone, as the supplier works to finalise the structure of its 2027 dry-weather tyres ahead of a September 1 specification freeze. George Russell completed 113 laps, covering 665km, for Mercedes with a best time of 1m30.695s, while Carlos Sainz managed 61 laps for Williams before a technical problem limited his running. Kimi Antonelli and Alex Albon will take over driving duties on Wednesday.
Mercedes deputy technical director Simone Resta said a front brake-duct âwheel shieldâ failure made Kimi Antonelliâs car âalmost undriveableâ during the British Grand Prix. Resta said: "It was simply a front brake duct failure of a part of the brake duct that is called the wheel shield. And essentially, 10 laps to the end, we had a failure, and the component got loose and started to interact quite a lot with the suspension behaviour and the steering of the car. The car became very, very lazy and almost undriveable."
Lewis Hamilton said a pre-race set-up change left his Ferrari with âhuge understeerâ at the start of the British Grand Prix, as he took responsibility after finishing third behind race-winning team-mate Charles Leclerc. Hamilton said: "As for the balance, I noticed that Charles had increased the front load compared to qualifying, adding wing... So I took wing off and, as a result, at the start of the race, I had huge understeer. We went too low [on how much load to have] on the front wing and that is my responsibility and that of the engineering team."
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem says Christian Horner will return to Formula 1, after the former Red Bull team principal was seen in the paddock at the British Grand Prix. Ben Sulayem said: "Yes. He will get back. Where is not for me to say -- even if I know. It is for him to say."
Martin Brundle says Formula 1 should look at changing its safety-car procedures to avoid a repeat of the British Grand Prix finish at Silverstone, when regulations meant the race could not restart for a final-lap shoot-out. Brundle said: "There are potential fixes. In IndyCar, for example, if it's within the last 10 laps, instead of a wave-by the lapped cars are made to peel off into the pit lane and rejoin at the back of the field. Or we could simply have the lapped runners simply drop behind the pack. Or throw a red flag and have a standing restart in race order, although this takes a while."
Martin Brundle says Max Verstappen could look to leave Red Bull in the coming years but has limited options because the top teams appear committed to their current driver line-ups for at least 2027. Brundle said: "I think if he could go, he will go at some point, whether itâs 2027 or 2028, and do something fresh for him... He put some faith in the new Red Bull power unit, and it's proved to be a very good decision. The problem Max has got is that there are only three teams he can look at â Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes â and they all seem very, very locked in to their current driver line-ups for at least 2027, and quite often, way beyond."
Gabriel Bortoleto says Formula 1 drivers should stop complaining about the 2026 50:50 split between internal combustion engine and battery power and instead âadaptâ. Bortoleto said: "These are the regulations that we are living in right now, and if there are still people complaining about it, just move the page; these are the regulations we've got until 2030. Because it is what we have, the cars are still fun to drive, it is different, and we need to adapt to that, and it is life."
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